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Friday, January 12, 2018

This is a review of a split album between Italy's Darkness and Oltretomba called "Horned, Winged And Grim" which was released as a joint effort between Fistbang Records and War Productions and we will start off the review with Darkness a band that has been featured before in this zine and plays a raw mixture of black and thrash metal.

Their side of the split starts out with acoustic guitars before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also uses a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats while the vocals are mostly angry and high pitched black metal screams along with the music being heavily rooted in the 90's second wave tradition.

Throughout their side of the recording you can also hear a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts while the riffs also bring in a great amount of thrash elements along with all of the musical instruments having a very powerful sound to them and a couple of the tracks are recorded live, the production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover war, darkness, hatred and death themes.

In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Darkness and if you are a fan of raw black and thrash metal, you should check out their side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Endless Wrath" and "Let The Napalm Rain".

Next up is Oltretomba another band that has been featured before in this zine and plays a raw, old school and satanic form of black metal.

Their side of the split starts out with ritualistic beats before going into a very fast and raw musical direction which also uses a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats while the vocals are mostly angry black metal screams along with all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them.

A decent amount of melody can also be heard in the guitar riffing while some of the songs also mix in elements of thrash along with the solos and leads bringing in a very raw and old school style as well as the music sticking to either a mid tempo or fast musical direction and they also bring in a cover of Death S.S's "Black Profanation Of Death", the production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Satanism, Blasphemy and Intolerance themes.

In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Oltretomba and if you are a fan of satanic, raw and old school black metal, you should check out their side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Motherfucker of Grand Cross" and "Her Eyes".

In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding split and would recommend it to all fans of old school black metal. 8 out of 10.